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Nelson Crocker Hawks ( 1840 - 1929 ) was born in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA on August 21 , 1840 . Throughout his childhood he had always aspired to become a printer, by the age of 16 he had found employment as a printer's devil (colloquial; apprentice), and by 18 had started his own Newspaper . Nelson is notable for creating the ''12-points-per- Pica '' standard; he held that there should be a standard measurement system for printing and promoted the idea. During the , 1929 , at age 89. SEE ALSO Typographic Unit REFERENCES
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